Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David warned that concerns over the potential dangers of artificial intelligence should not be dismissed.

“We should not simply laugh off the concern as another science-fiction doomsday scenario,” David said in a social media post.

“Anthropic and OpenAI themselves have developed safety frameworks that explicitly recognize the possibility of catastrophic harm and ‘loss of control’ from increasingly capable AI systems,” he added.

Anthropic and OpenAI are companies developing advanced AI systems.

David issued the statement after learning of what he described as “disturbing news” circulating about AI.

He cited warnings from Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, who said some people developing the world’s most advanced AI systems believe the technology could eventually escape human control and pose an existential threat to humanity.

David also cited Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger, who publicly estimated that there was a greater than 10 percent chance that superintelligent AI could cause human extinction within the next decade.

Despite these concerns, David said people should not fear human creations, including AI, as creativity remains one of humanity’s greatest gifts.

“The challenge is to make sure that human wisdom, conscience and moral responsibility develop as rapidly as the power of our,” he said.

David said Pope Leo XIV had also raised ethical questions about advances in digital technology and AI.

In the pontiff’s document “Magnifica Humanitas,” the pope observed that AI developers had only a limited understanding of the inner workings of their systems, David said.

The cardinal added that the pope described advanced AI systems as increasingly being “cultivated” rather than “built.”

David said Pope Leo XIV issued another document last month asking whether humanity could continue controlling machines or eventually become a victim of its own inventions.